Record-index envelop



J. ZIIVIMERMAN,

RECORD INDEX ENVELOP.

APPLICATION FILED DEC-30,1919.

1,336,279 Patented p 6, 1920.

WITNESSES V llVl/E/VTOR M m ATTORNEYS JOHN ZIMMERMAN, OF BROOKLYN, NEVJYORK.

RECORD-INDEX ENVELOP.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Apr. 6, 1920.

Application filed December 30, 1919. Serial No. 348,256.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN ZIMMIERMAN, a citizen of the United States, anda resident of the city of New York, borough of Brooklyn, in the countyof Kings and State of New York, have invented a new and ImprovedRecord-Index Envelop, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention relates to indexing appliances and has particularreference to means for locating in an easy and rapid manner any desiredphonograph disk records among a large assortment thereof.

Among the objects of the invention therefore is to provide a means toenable the operator of a phonograph to locate a record disk pertainingto any desired musical selection with the utmost facility.

Another object of the invention is to so manipulate or care for therecords of a collection as to conserve in the most favorable manner notonly the envelops, but also even the records themselves, for with asystem such as the one described herein in practice the record diskswill be handled and preserved obviously in a much more favorable mannerthan is commonly practised.

More specifically stated the primary purpose of this invention is toprovide an easy, cheap and reliable means or method for indexing oridentifying the several disk record jackets or envelops by the use of aninitial letter corresponding to the name of the musical selectioncarried by the disk.

lVith the foregoing and other objects in view the invention consists inthe arrangement and combination of parts hereinafter described andclaimed, and while the inven tion is not restricted to the exact detailsof construction disclosed or suggested herein, still for the purpose ofillustrating a practical embodiment thereof reference is had to theaccompanying drawings, in which like reference characters designate thesame parts in the several views, and in which Figure 1 is a diagrammaticperspective view of a portion of a music cabinet with an assemblage ofrecords supported on the shelf therein.

Fig. 2 is a plan view of one of the envelops.

Fig. 3 is a plan view of a sheet subdivided into a multiplicity ofsections carrying different initial letters, said sections beingseparable along weakened lines for convemence.

Fig. 4 is a sectional view on the line ll of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a plan view corresponding to Fig. 2, but indicating theinitial letter applied thereto.

According to the usual practice a number of record disks will be kept ina heterogeneous mass, either with or without indi vidual envelops orjackets and with the jackets when used unidentified, making it aditficult matter to locate a record with facility. According to myinvention I supply for the market specially made envelops 10 each havinga finger piece or tab 11 projecting from the central portion of the openend thereof pasted, printed or otherwise placed upon the throat portionof the envelop adjacent to the tab 11, and preferably extending over aportion thereof there is formed a label field with lines and spaces forapplying the names and composers of two selections, the name of theselection being preferably nearest to the end of the tab for convenienceof the operator. When this label field is applied as an auxiliary membersuch as a paster it serves by virtue of the tongue 12 as a reinforcementfor the tab 11. If, however, the material of which the envelop is madeis of sufficiently strong and durable character the field 12 may beestablished by simply printing upon the body of the envelop. The tabs 11in any event are of a relatively flexible nature so that they may droopwith respect to a pile or assemblage of filled envelops as supportedupon a shelf as shown in Fig. 1. Since these tabs are of a flexiblenature it is a very easy matter for the operator to search through alarge number of envelops for the purpose of locating any desiredselection.

indicates a sheet of index letters, each sheet having preferably all theletters of the alphabet formed or printed in plain characters thereon,and the sheet furthermore is subdivided by weakened lines as indicatedat 1 for the easy segregation of the index letters. This sheet may be inthe nature of a sheet of postage stamps with respect not only to theweakening of the lines of subdivision, but also carrying upon the back afilm of mucilage or the like whereby when the same is moistened thedesired letter may easily be pasted upon the tab as indicated in Figs. 1and 5. The several letters are indicated at 15.

From the nature of the letter sheet 13 it is obvious that the same maybe furnished in large quantities at a very low cost so that for a fewcents each owner of a phonograph may be supplied With enough letters 15to make and identify all of the records in his collection, and when therecords are so marked it must be appreciated that they can be kept in amuch neater and more satisfactory condition not only for the sake of therecords themselves as physical objects, but more especially in a mannermost conducive to the easy and least troublesome location of desiredrecords.

The envelops and letter stickers 15 may be sold at the same time orseparately. Ordinarily the envelops Will be sold independent of thestickers or Without the stickers being applied for the reason that theowner or operator of the phonograph will then be at liberty to introducethe records into the envelops Without respect to any special identifyingmeans, and after the records are so placed the index letters 15 will beapplied thereto in accordance With the several titles of the selections.

I claim:

In a means for preserving and identifying record disks, the combinationof an envelop having at its open end a forwardly projecting flexibletab, alabel field applied to the body of the envelop adjacent to the taband having a tongue projecting over the tab, said label field havingpredetermined spaces for the names of the selection and composer, and aninitial index letter adapted to be pasted upon the tab and tonguecorresponding to the name of the selection.

: JOHN ZIMMERMAN.

